FIRM BRIEFINGS OTHER JURISDICTIONS Jiménez de Aréchaga Viana + Brause
2012 Firm Overview Most active disciplines
Disputes: Financial and corporate, Public, Tax Financial and corporate: Banking, Commodities trading and energy derivatives, M&A, Private equity, Project finance Public: Competition, Construction, Employment, Environmental, Land, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax
Key energy sectors LNG, Mining and metals, Oil and gas, Renewables
Key infrastructure sectors Rail, Roads
Key partners Nicolas Herrera Alonso
Jiménez de Aréchaga Viana + Brause is the Uruguayan counsel for one of the four pre-qualified consortia in an international tender for the design, financing, construction, installation, operation, and mainte- nance of a LNG floating storage and regasification terminal, including the construction of port infrastructure in Punta Sayago, Montevideo. Jiménez de Aréchaga Viana + Brause advised Banco Santander on pro- viding an export credit facility of $99 million and a commercial facility of $14 million to Uruguay’s state energy company, ANCAP. The deal closed on September 27, 2012, and ANCAP will use the investment funds to invest in cement plants and a lime mining plant.
VENEZUELA
Mendoza Palacios Acedo Borjas Páez Pumar & Cía
2012 Firm Overview Cross-border experience
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
Most active disciplines Disputes: Financial and corporate, Public, Tax Financial and corporate: Banking, M&A, Project finance Public: Employment, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax, Transfer pricing
Key energy sectors
Mining and metals, Oil and gas, Power networks and distribution, Renewables, Traditional power
Key infrastructure sectors Healthcare
Key partners Manuel Acedo Sucre, Carlos Eduardo Acedo Sucre, Carlos Bello, Esteban Palacios, Julio Páez Pumar, Luisa Acedo de Lepervanche
Mendoza Palacios Acedo Borjas Páez Pumar & Cía has been an active player in the Venezuelan oil sector since the 1970s when it assisted the government in the nationalisation of the sector. The firm has also par- ticipated in most of the major project financings of the extra-heavy oil found in the Orinoco Belt. Currently, Mendoza Palacios Acedo Borjas Páez Pumar & Cía is as-
sisting Consorcio Euro-Bras Guri in all matters regarding the bidding process of the contract for the rehabilitation of a hydro-electric facility which provides the main energy requirements to Venezuela. The firm is also providing ongoing counsel to a foreign construction and medical supply company making medical investments in Venezuela by building and equipping medical installations in several locations.
WDA Legal
2012 Firm Overview Most active disciplines
Disputes: Financial and corporate, Public, Tax Financial and corporate: Banking, Commodities trading and energy derivatives, Equipment/asset finance, Investment funds, M&A, Private equity, Project finance Public: Competition, Construction, Environmental, Employment, Land, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax
Key energy sectors Oil and gas, Power networks and distribution, Traditional power
Key infrastructure sectors Airports and aviation, Roads
Key partners Ramon Azpurua, Hernando Diaz-Candia
Travieso Evans Arria Rengel & Paz 2012 Firm Overview
Most active disciplines Disputes: Financial and corporate, Public, Tax Financial and corporate: Banking, Commodities trading and energy derivatives, Equipment/asset finance, Investment funds, M&A, Project finance Public: Competition, Construction, Employment, Environmental, Land, Projects, Regulatory Tax: Corporate tax, Indirect tax, Transfer pricing
Key energy sectors
Mining and metals, Oil and gas, Power networks and distribution, Traditional power
Key infrastructure sectors Airports and aviation, Ports and shipping, Water and sewage
Key partners Olga Nass de Massiani, Pedro Rengel, Simón Guevara
Travieso has been operating as an energy firm in Venezuela since the 1920s and represented several oil companies until the nationalisation of the oil industry in 1976. Over the last few years, the firm has been active representing foreign oil and drilling companies, as they have be- come players in the industry since its liberalisation in the late 1990s. Travieso practices in every area of law save for criminal law. As this guide went to press, the firm had six offices across the country. The firm represents Braskem, a petrochemical company in Brazil,
in the development of two joint ventures in Venezuela valued at more than $3 billion. The advice is ongoing and the joint venture has resulted in one petrochemical facility for the production of polypropilene and one for the production of polyethylene. Travieso is also assisting Schlumberger, a drilling company, in its ne-
gotiations with PDVSA for the incorporation of the biggest oil field service mixed company in Venezuela. The $1.3 billion joint venture is, predictably, subject to extensive regulatory analysis. Travieso is also ad- vising Electricidad Industrial Portuguesa, on a contract for the devel- opment of electricity substations and lines. Such development entails setting up the company in Venezuela, negotiating a contract with state- owned electricity firm CADAFE, and drafting, negotiating, and im- plementing accessory contracts, the first of which is valued at $60 million. It is expected that other contracts for audit, rehabilitation, and construction of new electricity infrastructure will have a net value of at least $220 million.
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